Plant Identification: CLOSED: Clerodendrum species I.D., 1 by JaxFlaGardener
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JaxFlaGardener wrote: Here are some photos of the leaves, as requested. I also compared the leaves of the Wal-Mart "Clerodendrum" with leaves from my Pseuderanthemum. (1st photo, P. laxiflorum leaves on the left, Wal-Mart plant on the right) I pored over hundreds of photos online last night, trying to find a Clerodendrum that matched up with the plant from Wal-Mart. Some came close -- one with a purplish throat, but I lost track of the photo. This photo of a young sucker from C. quadricolare seems very similar to the plant from Wal-Mart, but the flowers are very different from C. quadricolare. (scroll down to the middle photo in the document). http://okeechobee.ifas.ufl.edu/News columns/Shooting Star.ht... In comparing the leaves to Pseuderanthemum, the plant from Wal-Mart has fleshier leaves, and has the very distinctive maroon underside of the leaves with a very distinctive midrib yellow stripe. My Pseuderanthemum laxiflorum has some light purplish mottling on the underside of the leaf. The plant from Wal-Mart also has narrow, more lanceolate leaves with a fairly stiff fold. Pseuderanthemum leaves are relatively thin and limp. I'm also not sure that Pseuderanthemum flower clusters form the somewhat pyramidal-shaped terminal flower cluster as does the Wal-Mart plant. I can only come up with three photos of Pseuderanthemum bicolor on the Internet, and all three are completely different from one another/ The photo referenced above from the Australian webpage: http://www.nparks.gov.sg/nursery/uploadfiles/pseuderanthemum... This one from a natural healing website (scroll down to the middle of the page) http://www.naturalmedicine.randyamy.com/ And this one from a non-translatable website that shows something more like a Lady's Slipper: http://albinopri.cool.ne.jp/leaf/database.cgi?equal3=Pseuder... Will the real P. bicolor PLEASE stand up?! LOL From what I can see in photos of other Pseuderanthemum species, the petals seem to be arranged more in a 2 on top, 3 on the bottom spread rather than the circular arrangement of petals in the Wal-Mart plant. So, I am still uncertain as to the I.D. Jeremy |